The official histories describe Lu Bu as "fickle and treacherous, with profit as his only concern." He lived a lonely life, and when he died, there was no one he could trust. What if he had rescued someone from the snow in Wuyuan Commandery, and the two had depended on each other, sharing the same fate and the same heart?
From the frontier grasslands at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty to the archery grounds of the Bingzhou army camp; from the bloody night Luoyang fell to the arrow shot at the camp gate in Xiapi, Lu Zhao always stood by Lu Bu's side.
For thirty years, they passed through the service of Ding Yuan, Dong Zhuo, Zhang Yang, Yuan Shu, Yuan Shao, Cao Cao, and Liu Bei, yet they never parted.
This is the greatest change possible within the framework of official history, another possibility drawing close to a destined fate.
And every choice Lu Zhao and Lu Bu make pushes them toward that predetermined ending.
This story draws on the historical records Records of the Three Kingdoms, Book of the Later Han, Zizhi Tongjian, and Biographies of Heroes, among others. It will not feature fictional elements from Romance of the Three Kingdoms such as the Three Heroes Battling Lu Bu, Diaochan, or the Fangtian Halberd. The shot at the camp gate, however, is recorded in the official histories.
The story will be carefully revised after completion.
Theme: Lu Bu had no friends in his life, but I am willing to write a legend that belongs to him alone.
